In a move which underscores the first public Google/Nest crossover after Google's $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest Labs earlier this year, it has been recently announced by Google that the Nest Learning Thermostat is now available through the Google Play Store.

According to the announcement, the Nest Learning Thermostat can now be purchased from the Google Play store for $249.

According to a CNET report released on Friday, sportswear giant Nike has abruptly withdrawn itself from the crowded wearable technology market.

The CNET report has revealed that Nike has fired most of the members of its team responsible for the development of its FuelBand fitness tracker. In addition, the company has also cancelled it plans to launch a new FuelBand version.

On Thursday, April 17, 2014, the Ford Mustang celebrates its 50th birthday --- it was on this day in 1964 that the Mustang first rolled off assembly lines in Detroit and California. Over the last 50 years of Mustang's availability on the market, Ford has, till now, sold nearly 9 million Mustangs.

In an April 14 post on the Google Cloud Platform Blog, Google announced the expansion of its Google Cloud Platform services to the Asia-Pacific region, with the launch of its first two Compute Engine zones in the region.